• Fresh from looking into Google's books deal, US government officials are now apparently considering whether America's telecoms giants are too powerful, reports the Wall Street Journal. Potential targets including Apple's exclusive deal with AT&T to be the only iPhone supplier in the US. Would British regulators look at O2's deal with Apple in the same way?
• Here's one I missed the other day: a player in Eve Online stole billions of dollars of in-game currency (via the BBC) - has been compounded as players withdraw their cash from the game's virtual banks, creating a run costing developers and players tens of thousands of dollars says Ars Technica.
• Struggle with the constant demands of photographers tracking your every move? Fed up with being the celebrity everyone's trying to take pictures of? Perhaps the idea of an anti-paparazzi clutchbag will appeal - a concept design by Adam Harvey that detects when cameras are flashing and flashes back, spoiling the picture in the process (via Wired and CrunchGear)
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